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Archives for April 2012

Cookie dough brownies

Cookie dough brownies

Humble Handmaid

Do you want to be famous? Do you want to bring a huge smile to the face of any normal…
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More Gabriel fishy-ness

More Gabriel fishy-ness

Humble Handmaid· Motherhood

A pair o’ Francos We’ve got ourselves a crawfish-eatin’ toddler, folks Having more fun than all the rest of us…
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Don’t buy me a house plant…

Humble Handmaid

I never thought I of all people would get into lawn care. Heck, I’ve mowed the backyard once. In my…
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Fishy, happy Franklets

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Gabriel is o-fish-ally a little fish! He LOVES being in the water. I have a feeling we will be visiting…
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Delighting in your children

Delighting in your children

Humble Handmaid· Motherhood

I make it a point to gush about my kids. To everyone. It’s not hard to gush about my kids….
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Giving without poetry

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Motherhood

“A wife is her husband’s richest treasure, a helpmate, a steadying column.” -Sirach 36:24 “A gracious wife delights her husband,…
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God’s mercy and the Poky Little Puppy

God’s mercy and the Poky Little Puppy

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Motherhood

Gabriel is my own poky little puppy. I’m talking about the head-in-the-clouds, procrastinating, slow-moving, can’t-walk-in-a-straight-line-distracted kind of poky. It’s been…
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These aren’t my kids.

These aren’t my kids.

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Motherhood

These aren’t my kids.  I mean–they are. But they aren’t.  They’re God’s kids, and they’re on loan. He’s given me…
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Peace in the seasonal

Humble Handmaid· Interior Life· Motherhood

So often these days, I remind myself that something I am going through is just a season. That trials or…
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I'm a south Louisiana girl, Catholic wife, writer, speaker, and mother of six. Since I started my blog way back in 2009, life has been a roller coaster of babies, plot twists and a plane crash or two. I've been chronicling things here as I've been learning to love and suffer and laugh and trust in the goodness of God in the ordinary and the extraordinary--with a little espresso and a lot of Divine Mercy. Read More…

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